Items tagged with "Law Schools"

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UMass Law: Update
Governor Patrick is supporting the proposed acquisition of unaccredited Southern New England School of Law (SNESL) by UMass Dartmouth “subject to the financial analysis being done. It’s got to make fiscal sense.” Elsewhere the Governor was quoted as being even more supportive: “I think a first-class state university system,...

Alumni Guest Post: Some Pearls of Wisdom from a Part-Time 1L
Lauren Parry graduated from UMass Amherst in 2004 with a degree in History & Legal Studies. She is now a first year law student at Rutgers School of Law Camden in Camden, New Jersey in the part time evening program. She kicks off a new occasional series for the Pre-Law blog—...

UMass Law School?
The idea of creating a public law school in Massachusetts, last seen in 2005, when it was rejected by the state Board of Higher Education, is back. The current proposal, like the old, involves UMass-Dartmouth taking over the unaccredited Southern New England School of Law (SNESL), also in Dartmouth. Accordingly, despite...

Law schools beginning to offer more practical skills training
Interesting article from the National Law Journal on a variety of new offerings at law schools to increase the marketability of their grads. Certainly something to keep in mind as you are deciding which schools to apply to.
Graduates face stiff competition for law firm positions, and clients are...

It just gets uglier
From today’s New York Times, Downturn Dims Prospects Even at Top Law Schools.
This fall, law students are competing for half as many openings at big firms as they were last year in what is shaping up to be the most wrenching job search season in over 50 years.
There’...

Early numbers: Little change in application volume
From the ABA Journal online:
[T]he number of law school applications nationally has risen by less than 1 percent from last year, despite the dismal state of the economy, [according to] communications director Wendy Margolis of the Law School Admission Council.
Read the rest of the article here.
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Applications to Law Schools Are Declining
From today’s New York Times:Applications to Law Schools Are DecliningFebruary 9, 2006By JONATHAN D. GLATERHas law school lost its appeal?Last year, for the first time since the 1997-98 admission cycle, the number of applicants to law school declined, by 4.6 percent, and so far this year, the number has...

Gaming the rankings
Every year, law school applicants spend an inordinate amount of time obsessing about US News & World Report’s law school rankings. The Pre-Law website discusses generally why you shouldn’t care about the rankings. This summer, the New York Times published an article giving a new set of...